Re: Determining character encoding for a given file

[Kim Christensen <kim-lists@01.se>]

* Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> [2007-01-30 12:49:00 +0100]:

> On 2007-01-30 06:40:52 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Kim Christensen wrote:
> > > This might not be debian specific, but does anyone know of a quick way
> > > (hack/tool) to determine the encoding used for a given file?
> 
> > apt-cache show recode
> 
> How can you do that with recode?
> 
> > apt-cache show enca
> 
> enca is very limited. Alternatively, you have the command "file".

Thanks, this does exactly what I'm after!

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Kim Christensen
"I am Jack's inflamed sense of rejection."